The Yellow Maelstrom
Summary
Shortly after failing the graduation exam, Naruto steals the forbidden scroll and finds a scroll addressed to him inside. Armed with it, he will strive to become the best as his heritage is revealed to him and he rocks the Shinobi world as a force to be reckoned with.
Thanks again to all of you who continue to review and read. Please continue to do so. Hope you all enjoy this chapter. Didn't mention what the pairing is I feel like letting the new readers wait a few chapters.
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Jutsus being used/ reading letter, note
"Please fetch Mr. Tazuna."
All the genin members of team seven waited patiently as their client was fetched. They had never been on a bodyguard mission before now, so they were all excited, though it didn't show.
A few moments later, a dark grey haired man who smelled of sake entered the room while staggering. He took some time to steady his self before facing team Seven.
"You can't be serious; these are the brats that will be guarding me? They just look like a bunch of super babies to me." Said Tazuna
The Genin bristled at the comment but stood still. The Sandaime's eyebrow rose at the display. He had at least expected Naruto to respond violently to the old man's comments. He was about to speak but Naruto beat him to it.
"Sir, I would appreciate it if you didn't disrespect our team. We don't take kindly to such mannerisms." He finished as calmly as possible surprising the Sandaime with the amount of restraint he showed. True, they had all undergone intense training, but to go from a loud, obnoxious, ramen loving idiot to a calm, collected, and competent Shinobi who still loved ramen in such a short time was phenomenal. Iruka was also having similar thoughts.
"What ever gaki, I'm the super bridge builder Tazuna and I expect super protection from you brats as I build my bridge." Said Tazuna
Kakashi looked at Naruto then handed him the scroll that the Sandaime gave him earlier with the details of the mission. Naruto quickly read it and committed everything to memory then assumed command.
"Ok, we will be heading to the Land of Waves to escort and protect the bridge builder here until the completion of his bridge. We are to expect bandits and small time thugs on the way. No Shinobi presence is expected however be ready. We leave in 30 minutes at the main gate so get ready and pack for a month long journey."
"Hai" the three other members of the team replied in unison. Saluting the Hokage, they all left via Shunshin, but not before informing Tazuna where the Main gate was.
The Hokage and Iruka were still shocked from Naruto's earlier display and even more so now. 'How did Kakashi do it?' they both thought.
30 minutes later, three of the members of team seven were at the main gate waiting on Tazuna and their third member as they seemed to be running late. A few moments later, two figures were seen walking towards them.
When Naruto and Tazuna arrived, Naruto quickly took command.
"It will take us approximately three days to get to wave so if we want to make good time lets head out. Kakashi-sensei, you will take point while Sakura and Sasuke flank him on either side. I'll take rear guard. Everyone ready? Then let's head out." He commanded
The group travelled for the first day and a half in relative ease. There were no disturbances on their journey. After getting ready to head out on the third day, they assumed their positions and continued their journey. After walking for a few miles, Kakashi spotted a puddle on the edge of the road. 'Hmm, seems like we have trouble. Should be nothing that the guys can't handle so I'll leave it to them,' thought Kakashi.
When he turned around, he noticed that all of his students seemed to have noticed that the puddle wasn't really that but a poorly placed Genjutsu. Quickly nodding to them, he and Naruto changed positions with Naruto up front and him taking the rear guard.
They passed the puddle without incident but about 20 feet away from it; commotion suddenly broke out and caused them to halt.
All of them with the exception of Kakashi turned around armed expecting an attack. What they saw shocked them. Their Sensei was trapped by a long, spiked chain that was held by two nuke-nin from the mist.
"One down" the one on the left said in a raspy voice as they proceeded to rips Kakashi to shreds. Blood spluttered every which way as the chain freed itself from Kakashi's remains
"Two four to go," said the other member of the mist duo in an equally raspy voice.
Tazuna was on the edge of a panic attack at looked at the genin with a scared face as if pleading with them to do something. Sensing his panic and fear, Naruto spoke up.
"Tazuna-san, we will protect you, but at the end of this we expect the entire truth." He said in a cold, monotone voice that the rest of the team had dubbed his mission persona. His piercing blue eyes did noting to lessen Tazuna's fears as they seemed to gaze into the depths of his very soul.
Tazuna, although scared, looked confused and thought that the brat was crazy. Their sensei had just been killed by those guys and he was talking about protecting him! He was broken from his thoughts by Naruto speaking.
"Sakura, guard Tazuna, Sasuke and I will handle these guys. Sasuke lets go."
In a blur the two of them disappeared from view and appeared near the two attackers.
"Now tell me, what are the demon brothers doing attacking our team?" asked Naruto in the same monotone voice.
The two attackers were amazed that mere genin knew who they were. The widening of their eyes was evidence enough of it. Neither of the brothers, Gouzu or Meizu gave any response to the blonde haired Shinobi.
"Well then, lets go."
Looking towards Sasuke, he communicated one message to him. Separate them. In a split second, the two began their assault on the Demon brothers. Naruto taking the one on the left, gouzu and Sasuke taking the one on the right, meizu.
Sasuke sped towards Meizu with speed that seemed unnatural for a genin. In the blink of an eye, he threw a kunai towards their chain and it got stuck in the trunk of a tree. The brothers, realizing that their chain would only hold them back, released it and fell to their secondary weapons; the poisoned gauntlets on their hands.
Each of the brothers wore a dangerous sneer on their faces and rushed Naruto and Sasuke. Sasuke being the closest to his opponent was the first to jump into action. He settled into a ready stance as Meizu came towards him. He cocked his fist and ran to meet him half way there. With a flick of his wrist, he sent a few shuriken towards Meizu who swatted them away with his gauntlet. Sasuke wasted no time and jumped forward to engage him in battle with his kunai drawn. They went at it for a few seconds with neither getting the upper hand. Suddenly, Sasuke flipped back and began forming seals while in the air. As soon as he landed, a shout of 'Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu' was heard as a ball of fire was expelled from Sasuke's mouth. Realizing his predicament, Meizu mentally counted off the few techniques that he knew and came up with what he thought was the perfect counter. Doing the seals as fast as he could he shouted out Suiton: Teppoudama' as he sent a water bullet towards the fire attack.
Expecting an easy victory, he let his guard slip for a short while, but that was all Sasuke needed. Meizu's water jutsu may have won over his fire, but it didn't stop the chakra enhanced kunai that were hidden within the fire with wires attached to them. Under the cover of the steam, five kunai found themselves lodged in the arms, legs and stomach of Meizu.
Meizu gasped when he felt the impact of the Kunai's being lodged inside of him. Both of his arms and legs were rendered useless as his arms hung limply at his side. He slowly felt his self falling and looked up to see Sasuke with an indifferent expression on his face.
"You should never underestimate your opponent, its things like that that get you killed" said Sasuke.
He walked over towards Meizu intent on finishing him off, but was interrupted by a loud shout.
Naruto stared at his opponent Gouzu with a cold, hard stare.
"Before we begin," started Naruto "Tell me, why are you fighting us?"
Gouzu grunted and answered "We're fighting because we have orders to assassinate the bridge builder and any obstacles that stand in our way. You are just unfortunate enough to be an obstacle."
"If that's the case, I guess I can't convince you to back down." Replied Naruto
With that he settled into a loose stance and waited to Gouzu to come to him. Gouzu realized this and rushed forward intent on finishing the fight in one blow. As soon as Naruto was within his striking range, Gouzu took a swipe at his head with the intention of decapitating him. Naruto used a kunai to block the blow. Gouzu was surprised with the strength of the genin. He had blocked his gauntlet with a mere kunai without using any chakra!
"Hmph, looks like you've got spunk kid. Let's see what you can really do."
With that he leapt forward to engage Naruto in Taijutsu. They exchanged blow after blow in blurs of movement to those looking. Gouzu shot towards Naruto and fired a punch towards his torso area. Naruto sidestepped and tried kicking him in his chest but he saw it coming and evaded it quite easily. Taking advantage of Naruto's imbalanced state, he dove forward and struck Naruto in the left arm with his poisoned gauntlet. Momentarily shocked by the attack, Naruto stood rooted in his position and was subjected to a few more brutal attacks from Gouzu. In the span of one and a half minutes, the match was over, and a bleeding Naruto lay on the ground panting while trying to keep his eyelids open. Meizu looked at him grunted
"Next time, don't try acting tough when you can't back it up," he said.
Naruto simply looked at him before crawling over and latching unto his leg. Gouzu lifted his armed hand and said to him,
"Say goodbye genin"
"Sure," replied the heavily injured Naruto "boom!"
With that, the Naruto that was clutching Gouzu's leg exploded leaving nothing in its wake. 30 feet away, Naruto stepped out from the bushes unharmed and in perfect condition looking for any traces of Gouzu. Looking closely, he narrowed his eyes at what he saw. Where Gouzuu should have been was bits of wood that had been used in a Kawarimi. It seemed that he had escaped the explosion in the nick of time. He scanned the surrounding area and noticed some movement a few feet from his current position. The figure was Gouzu who was limping trying to get to safety. It seemed like the explosion wasn't entirely unsuccessful.
"Well Gouzu," started Naruto "it seems like you're not as good as the bingo book stated."
"Whatever kid, stop sending clones to fight your battles for you," Retorted Gouzu.
"The same is true for you" said Naruto while flicking a kunai towards Gouzu's position. It struck him in the forehead and he dissolved into a puddle of water signifying that it was a Mizu Bunshin.
The real Gouzu stepped into the open facing Naruto.
"Let take this up a notch" he said
Dashing at each other the two once again went at it with their fists and weapons. Neither of them seemed to be getting the upper hand.
Gouzu turned to regard the battle between his brother and the other leaf-nin. Things were not looking good for Meizu. He saw his brother get impaled by five kunai and begin falling to the ground. He looked on as the leaf-nin pulled out his kunai again, intent on killing his brother.
He lurched forward attempting to save his brother with a loud cry of
"Noooooooooo,"
Naruto noticed the change in direction and acted accordingly. It seemed like Gouzu was going to try to kill Sasuke before he finished his brother off. Moving even faster than before, he appeared next to Gouzu, who was only about five feet away from striking Sasuke.
Gouzu's advance suddenly stopped as quickly as it began. Moments later, he slowly fell to the ground with a loud thud and a kunai protruding from his neck.
Next to where he was standing, Naruto stood with an expressionless face after killing the nin. His blue eyes seemed even colder than ever; they looked like they could freeze hell over. He turned his gaze over to the other brother, Meizu and spoke to him
"If you endanger my comrades, the same fate awaits you, but yours won't be a quick." He said, while leaking out some killing intent.
"Sasuke, I'll take over from here. I'll deal with him while you get the necessary information from Tazuna. It seems like he lied about the mission." He finished with a cold glare towards said man.
"Hai," replied Sasuke.
As he was about to make his way to the bridge builder, Kakashi suddenly appeared next to the bridge builder, momentarily frightening him out of his wits.
"Naruto, Sakura and I will deal with Tazuna while you and Sasuke take care of the rouge nin."
They both nodded and went towards their prisoner whom they had securely tied up. This was one of the areas that none of the team members liked but excelled at nonetheless; Torture and Interrogation. Even Sakura could do it but became queasy most of the times.
The two male genin took the prisoner and went a short ways into the bushes while their sensei questioned the client.
Some time later, the two returned and relayed the information that they got to the rest of the team. It wasn't much but they got some info from him before he bit on a suicide capsule that was inside of his mouth.
They found through a Sharingan induced Genjutsu that he worked for Momochi Zabuza and was sent to kill the bridge builder with his brother. When he was finally able to break the genjutsu, he bit on the pill and killed his self.
Kakashi and Sakura during the talk with Tazuna found that the only reason he requested a C rank was because they couldn't pay for a higher ranked mission. He said that ever since Gatou came to the wave, the people began getting poorer and started losing hope. That's why he was building the bridge; to help bring back hope to his people and open new trade routes.
After conferring with each other, the four Shinobi decided to continue on, provided that the money be sent to them for an A ranked mission since Zabuza was likely to show up. He quickly agreed and they continued on their way.
An ominous feeling settled on those travelling together, it seemed like their next opponent would not be so easy to defeat.
That's a wrap tune in next time for the second instalment of the wave saga… tomorrow!
Translation time!
Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu – Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique
Suiton: Teppoudama – Water Style: Water Bullet
Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu – Water Clone Technique
Bunshin Bakuha – Shadow Clone Explosion
Well that's all for now. R & R
